mangadesk - Terminal client for MangaDex 📖
Download manga directly from your terminal to read!
This client retrieves information straight from MangaDex v5's API.
As the API is still a WIP, some changes (probably breaking) might be expected.
Features ✨
- Download chapters straight to your computer.
- Login to keep track of your followed manga.
- Keep track of already downloaded manga.
- Download multiple chapters together.
- Searching!
- Responsive UI (kind of)
- Written in Golang :)
Works for Windows/Linux/macOS.
Installation 🔧
Check out the releases page for relevant files. To update, just
download the latest release.
For bleeding edge 🗡 updates, you may compile from source:
git clone https://github.com/darylhjd/mangadesk.git
cd mangadesk
go get -d ./...
go build
Usage ✍
Simply choose the chapters you want to read to download.
Keybindings ⌨
Operation |
Binding |
Page |
Login/Logout |
Ctrl + L |
All |
Keybindings/Help |
Ctrl + K |
All |
Search |
Ctrl + S |
All |
Next/Prev Page |
Ctrl + F/B |
Some |
Escape |
Esc |
Some |
Select multiple chapters |
Ctrl + E |
Manga Page |
Toggle select all |
Ctrl + A |
Manga Page |
Settings ⚙
You may change the appropriate settings in the usr_config.json
file.
You can find this file in the usr
folder which is located relative to where you run the application.
Download Folder
By default, all downloads are stored in a folder titled downloads
.
You can change this by changing the downloadDir
field.
Languages
By default, only English (en
) translated chapters are shown.
You may change your desired language(s) through the languages
field. Please use
comma-separated ISO language codes.
Download Quality
Valid options are data
(high quality) and data-saver
(lower quality).
Any other empty/invalid option will default to data
.
Force Port 443
Valid options are true
or false
. It is false
by default.
Set to true
if you are having trouble downloading or are using networks that block traffic to non-standard ports
(such as school/office networks).
More info.
Issues ☠
Check out the Issues page for current issues/feature requests.
Contributing 🤝
Always welcome and appreciated :)
Please take some time to familiarise yourself with the contributing guidelines.
Learning points 🧠
- Creating TUIs with tview/tcell.
- Working with the filesystem in Golang.
- Goroutines & Context.
- Go Project structure.